Sunday, June 11, 2017

The Sixteenth Book, So That None Of The Things That Are Can Perish

Herm.
WE must now speak of the Soul and body, O Son, after what manner the soul is Immortal, and what operation that is, which constitutes the Body, and dissolves it.
2. But in none of these is Death, for it is a conception of a name, which is either an empty word, or else it is wrongly called Death …, by taking away the first letter, instead of Immortal ….
3. For Death is destruction, but there is nothing in the whole World that is destroyed.
4. For if the World be a second God, and an Immortal living Wight, it is impossible that any part of an Immortal living Wight should die.
5. But all things that are in the World, are members of the World, especially man, the reasonable living Wight.
6. For the first of all is God, the Eternal, the Unmade, and the Workman of all things.
7. The second is the World, made by him, after his own Image, and by him holden together, and nourished, and immortalized, and as from its own Father, ever living.
8. So that as Immortal, it is ever living, and ever immortal.
9. For that which is ever living, differs from that which is eternal.
10. For the Eternal was not begotten, or made by another, and if it were begotten or made, yet it was made by itself, not by any other, but it is always made.
11. For the Eternal, as it is Eternal, is the Universe.
12. For the Father himself, is Eternal of himself, but the World was made by the Father, ever living, and immortal.
13. And as much Matter as there was laid up by him, the Father made it all into a Body, and swelling it, made it round like a Sphere, endued it with Quality, being itself immortal, and having Eternal Materiality.
14. The Father being full of Ideas, sowed qualities in the Spheres, and shut them up as in a Circle, deliberating to beautify with every Quality, that which afterwards should be made.
15. Then clothing the Universal Body with Immortality, lest the Matter, if it would depart from this Composition, should be dissolved into its own disorder.
16. For when the Matter was Incorporated, O Son, it was disordered, and it hath here the same confusion daily revolved about other little things, endued with Qualities, in point of Augmentation, and Diminution, which men call Death, being indeed a disorder happening about earthly living Wights.
17. For the Bodies of Heavenly things, have one order, which they have received from the Father at the beginning, and is by the instauration of each of them, kept indissolveable.
18. But the instauration of earthly Bodies is their consistence, and their dissolution restores them into indissolveable, that is, Immortal.
19. And so there is made a privation of Sense, but not a destruction of Bodies.
20. Now the third living Wight is Man, made after the Image of the World, and having by the will of the Father, an mind above other earthly Wights.
21. And he hath not only a sympathy with the second God, but also an understanding of the first.
22. For the Second God, he apprehends as a Body, but the first, he understands as Incorporeal, and the Mind of the Good.
23. Tat. And doth not this living Wight perish?
24. Herm. Speak advisedly, O Son, and learn what God is, what the World, what an Immortal Wight, and what a dissolveable one is.
25. And understand that the World is of God, and in God, but Man of the World, and in the World.
26. The Beginning, and End, and Consistence of all, is God.

The End of the Sixteenth Book,THAT NONE OF THE THINGS THAT ARE CAN PERISH.

The Divine Pymander, by Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus, tr. by John Everard, [1650], at sacred-texts.com

About Vayu Tiger

Robert Anthony Powell; (9 October 1986 – current) is an American occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, podcast host, former tarot reader, and paranormal investigator. Vayu was born in Terre Haute, Indiana. He founded Magia and his patron deities are Pallas Athene, Phoebus Apollo, and Aphrodite. He is a currently a writer and blogger.

Born to an Evangelical Christian family in Terre Haute, Indiana, Tiger was influenced by some of the precepts, but they provided the drive to explore more paradigms of belief. He was educated in Farrington Grove Elementary School, Sarah Scott Middle School, Terre Haute South Vigo High School, McLean Learning Center, and Hypnosis Motivational Institute. Vayu was in the Army Reserve and United States Army at Ft. Hood Texas. When he was sixteen he discovered magick through a paranormal experience with (a shadow person) in pursuit to explain this event. Vayu started to do work as an independent magician.

Tiger started making magick videos in 2009. Vayu Tiger was one of the first occultists to experiment with the utilization of paranormal equipment in magick on YouTube. Then other magicians proceeded to use his concept to test their own methods in 2015. As a part of his YouTube career, he was given the first English interview to Georg Dehn about the Book of Abramelin, which a centerpiece in that inspired modern day Holy Guardian Angel practices.

In 2011 Vayu Tiger had begun to explore tarot and its many uses. He made the claim that it predicted his ex-wife’s, Jodi Powell’s, pregnancy in 2008. The child was miscarried and the marriage was later annulled. He proceeded to work on Oranum from 2011 to 2017 as a tarot reader. He won psychic of the month in July 2013.

Vayu Tiger was a host with Taliesin McKnight on the podcast Magick Occult Radio after having Taliesin on his original podcast in 2012. It ended in 2013. Then he created Shadows in the Dark Podcast on YouTube with Ignis Cobra and Sam Shadow for a short period.

Vayu has written Consilium XVIII, which was an automatic writing, but revised to Biblio IH. He also published The Selected Works of Robert Powell. Both Consilium XVIII and The Selected Works of Robert Powell went out of print by Tiger’s claim that he was not satisfied with them. He has said that these works were inspired by his Holy Guardian Angel, which he had knowledge and conversation with on 1 January 2011. Tiger’s most recent work is Biblio IH, the revised edition of Consilium XVIII in 2017. In 2015 he discovered the Papyri Graecae Magicae and used this two millennia old system with parts of the Abramelin operation to create the first foundations of Magia, or Serpent magic. The system further includes his Biblio series written with Biblio IH as the core book.